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  • Membership
    • Becoming a Member
    • Session times & Locations
    • Products and Services
  • Centres, Halls and Shops
  • Fundraising & Support
    • Marathon in a Month 2025
    • Funds needed for Chippy
    • Ways to donate
    • Donate by Text
    • Personal Fundraising
    • Corporate Fundraising
    • Fundraising poetry book
    • Volunteering in our Shop
    • Volunteer Driving
    • Volunteering in sessions
    • Gift aid
    • Dementia Diamonds
  • What's On
    • Music for Wellbeing
    • Marathon in a Month 2025
  • Meet Our Team
    • Our Patrons & Ambassadors
    • Our Trustees
    • Our Staff
    • Our Volunteers
  • Occupational Therapy
  • CST
  • Policies
    • Referrals Policy
    • Safeguarding Policy
    • Code of Conduct
    • Privacy Policy
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Insurance Policies
    • Cancellations Policy
    • Equality Policy
    • Grievance Procedure
    • Whistleblowing Policy
    • Health and Safety Policy
    • Fire procedure & wardens
    • Dog Management Policy
    • Lone Working & Students
  • Risks/Lift Info
    • Risk Assessments
    • Employee Risk Assessment
    • Lift info video
  • Trustees’ annual reports
    • 2022/2023
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1 Introduction

Dementia Active: Core values and primary aims

2 The sessions – structure

Start – Arrivals 

Lunchtime 

End of session 

3 Activities

Card bingo, supporting members in bingo. Different levels of capacity. Seated exercise, supporting members in seated exercise. Asymmetrical exercises. Singing and dancing. Small activity groups. Art 

4 Cognitive stimulation therapy

Principles.  

CST themed discussions and quizzes. How to support members in discussion and quiz sessions.

The Pool Activity Level  

5 Strategies to support members

Working with anxiety: options. 

Whether to tell the truth or not?   

Anxiety – strategies.  

6 Principles of good communication

Asking questions and initiating conversations. 

Validating the person.  

The difficulties we sometimes face.

Strategies which may help in a difficult situation.

Tom Kitwood: Person Centred Care.

Finally - a request. 

7 Moving and handling procedures

8 Safeguarding: an introduction

Principles.   

Keeping members safe: roles and responsibilities.

Health and safety compliance.  

9 Dementia: a brain disorder

Normal age-related memory loss.

What is dementia?  

Mild cognitive impairment.

Main types of dementia. 

10 Memory and attention

Different kinds of memory  

11 A brief history of the charity

Our story 

Future plans

Funding 

12 Dementia Active: Roles and responsibilities


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